African American education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. African American students dance at a dress ball at the university.
Education and social life at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. African American female students dressed in gowns talk and smile. Women seated around tables in a room play cards. Two women in hats talk to each other.
Education for African American college students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. A telephone operator at a desk as she attends phone calls using a small switchboard. Two African American professors at a desk as they confer and smile. Students in a classroom take down notes. Students work with a Monroe adding machine as they take down notes. African American student operating a mimeograph duplication machine. Another student operates what it appears to be a early photographic copying machine for paper documents.
African American education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. College male African American singers around a piano practice a capella singing. An elderly female conductor conducts music. The woman conductor is seated at a piano with sheet music in front of her. The men sing (possibly gospel music or spirituals).
Wendell Wilkie waves from the top of the boarding ramp by his Douglas DC-3-178 - American Airlines Flagship-Virginia, acknowledging people greeting him at the new Vultee aircraft plant in Nashville, Tennessee. An African American man in uniform stands by as Wilkie descends the ramp. Scene shifts to a sizeable crowd waving from behind a fence on the airfield. An aerial view shows the factory and its airfield. Closer view of factory building itself. Next, a huge crowd is seen behind a fence, where a Vultee P-66 is displayed on a stand above the fence. It bears a British Royal Air Force roundel on its fuselage. U.S. Air Army Air Forces Officers and some Boy Scouts pose in front ot the aircraft. Wendel Wilkie is seen next, at a speaker's stand arrayed with microphones. It is decorated and displays the Vultee company Logo. Special guests in front of the stand, are seated on folding chairs. Closeup of Wilkie. Company officials are seen on a platform next to a Vultee P-66. Closeup of two young girls on the platform. One wields a bottle of Champaign to Christen the plane. Spectators applaud. A P-66 takes off from the airfield and climbs away.
Twenty millionth Ford car in Lebanon, Tennessee. The twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, on a ferry. The driver is seen inside the car. View of the shore as the ferry approaches dock at Cumberland River. The twenty millionth Ford in the business district of Nashville. A crowd gathers around the car. Views of the crowd surrounding the twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford.
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